On Election Night, Yvette Herrell was declared the winner in the election for U.S. House from New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, a Trump-friendly area.  The next day, however, officials “discovered” 8,000 additional ballots, giving the apparent win to Herrell’s Democrat opponent.

These miraculous conjuring of votes in close elections that only seem to favor Democrats should be unacceptable at face value in a industrialized democracy. The Republican Party, or any other similarly situated political organization, needs to wake up and respond aggressively rather than passively to voter fraud.

Herrell, who has not conceded the election  but has at the same time been vague about what steps she might take to contest the election other than “looking into it,” has served four terms in the New Mexico state house.